"How can you fight if you are not in earnest, and how can you speak things you only half believe?
I hate to think of men playing at politics." And she had set her little white teeth, and sat flushed and diffident, a Muse of Protest.
Lewis flushed in turn.

He recognized with pain the fulfilment of his fears.

He saw dismally how during the coming fight he would sink daily in the estimation of this small critic, while his opponent would as conspicuously rise.

The prospect did not soothe him, and he turned to Bertha Afflint, who was watching the scene with curious eyes.
"It's very sad, Lewie," she said, "but you'll get no canvassers from Glenavelin.

We have all been pledged to Mr.Stocks for the last week.
Alice is a keen politician, and, I believe, has permanently unsettled Lord Manorwater's easy-going Liberalism.